AUTOMATIC PAGE CONTENT READING-ALOUD METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20140297285A1
• Filed: 06/13/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Zhang, Kai, HU, Bo, TANG, Tingyong, WANG, Zhipei, ZHOU, Ruiyi, WANG, Xi, XIE, Zhengkai, HE, Bosen, HUANG, Ying, LI, Wei, FENG, Cheng, YANG, Huijiao, LlU, Renfang, LlU, Yulei
• Application Number:
  US14/303,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20140297285A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/260
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a page content reading method and device thereof. The method includes obtaining page content requested to browse, and determining whether a format of the page content meets a pre-determined requirement; it the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, displaying the page content, and processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically reading-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request; if the format of the page content does not meet the pre-determined requirement, displaying a page content, after the format of which having been converted into a format that meets the pre-determined requirement, and processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically reading-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request from the user. The embodiment of the present invention can be widely applied and can bring down the cost of realization.

Claims

1. A method for automatically reading-aloud page content, comprising:

obtaining page content requested to browse, and determining whether a format of the page content meets a pre-determined requirement;

if it is determined that the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, displaying the page content, and processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and reading-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request;

if it is determined that the format of the page content does not meet the pre-determined requirement, displaying the page content after the format of which having been converted into a format that meets the pre-determined requirement, and processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically reading-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

determining whether a format of the page content meets a pre-determined requirement comprises:

determining whether the page content is one having been subject to a page content extraction, if it is, then making a determination that the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, otherwise, then making a determination that the format does not meet the pre-determined requirement.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

converting the page content into the format that meets the pre-determined requirement and displaying it comprises:

performing body text extraction on the page content, and displaying the extracted content.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud is achieved by a Text To Speech technology.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

marking a word having been read-aloud with a karaoke following mode while reading aloud.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein,

after converting the page content into a format that meets the pre-determined requirement and prior to receiving the reading-aloud request, the method further comprises:

performing a sentence-separating process on the displayed page content;

marking a word having been read-aloud with a karaoke following mode while reading aloud comprises;

marking each sentence once it has been read-aloud.

7. An automatic page content reading-aloud device, comprising:

an obtaining module and a reading-aloud module;

the obtaining module is configured to obtain page content requested to browse and send the page content to the reading-aloud module;

the reading-aloud module is configured to;

determine whether a format of the page content meets a pre-determined requirement; and

if it is determined that the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, display the page content, and process the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically read-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request;

if it is determined that the format of the page content does not meet the pre-determined requirement, display a page content after the format of which having been converted into a format that meets the pre-determined requirement, and process the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically read-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request from the user.

8. The automatic page content reading-aloud device according to claim 7, wherein, the reading-aloud module comprises a displaying unit and a reading-aloud unit;

the displaying unit is configured to;

determine whether the format of the page content meets a pre-determined requirement;

if it is determined that the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, display the page content, and inform the reading-aloud unit to perform a reading-aloud function upon receiving a reading-aloud request;

if it is determined that the format of the page content does not meet the pre-determined requirement, display the page content after the format of which has been converted into a format that meets the pre-determined requirement, and inform the reading unit to perform a reading-aloud function upon receiving a reading-aloud request;

the reading-aloud unit is configured to process the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud, and automatically read-aloud the processed page content.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein,

the displaying unit is configured to determine whether the page content is one having been subject to a page content extraction, and if it is, make a determination that the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, otherwise, make a determination that the format does riot meet the pre-determined requirement, send the page content to a backend server for page body text extraction, and receive the processed page content returned from the backend server.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein,

the reading-aloud unit is configured to utilize a Text To Speech technology to process the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud, and automatically read-aloud the processed page content.

11. A browser client, comprising:

a content requesting module, being configured to send a request for page content to a server,

a content receiving module. being configured to receive page content from the server, the page content having been subject to a text content extraction and being divided into a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being a pre-determined portion of content in the form of plain text, derived from the page content having been subject to the text content extraction;

a content displaying module, being configured to display the received page content on a display screen, and display a reading-aloud triggering control component for triggering reading-aloud the second portion of the page content; and

a content reading-aloud module, being configured to output the second portion of the page content in an automatic phonetic form in response to the triggering of the reading-aloud triggering control component.

12. The browser client according to claim 11, wherein the text content extraction that the page content has been subject to is performed by a second server different from the server.

13. The browser client according to claim 11, further comprising:

a TTS module, being configured to convert the second portion into data in a phonetic form.

14. The browser client according to claim 11, wherein the first portion of the page content comprises advertisements.

15. The browser client according to claim 11, wherein a head and a tail of the second portion comprises a pre-determined mark,

wherein the content reading-aloud module is configured to locate the second portion of the page content based on the pre-determined mark, so as to output the second portion of the page content in an automatic phonetic form in response to the triggering of the reading-aloud triggering control component.